Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/11
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on 10/2/00 9:46 pm, Austin Franklin at austin@darkroom.com wrote:
> Well, I can't post the pictures, but working as a director in TV with a
> cameraman there have been a number of occasions where a filter in front of
> the lens has degraded the image to the point where I've asked for it to be
> taken off.
>
> [Austin] And this was while using studio lighting I would suppose? As
> said, there are cases where lighting forward of the camera will cause some
> phenomenon, but comparing a video studio situation to a photo situation
> (studio or not) is a completely different set of circumstances. I have
> been shooting in the studio (and out) for 25 years, always using filters
> and have NEVER seen any image problems at all. I do not shoot Leicas in
> the studio, I shoot with Hasselblads. I can see where it would happen in a
> video studio though, if care were not taken in the lighting.
No, I never shoot in a studio, where you can control lighting much more
precisely and where you can flag off light sources easily. I have worked on
location for 10 years, and the situations I describe are ones where there is
a light source, incandescent, sun or reflection, or a brightness equivalent
to a light source, like a bright window in a dark room, in frame or close to
it.
Basically any situation which illuminates the front of the lens directly
when the light source is out of frame is going to flare to some extent, even
but you may be able to flag it off. When the light source is *in* frame you
can't flag, and you are relying on the quality of the optics and the lack of
a filter!!
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